April 19, 2013

Time is flying – tends to do that when you’re busy.  Last Monday we left Cumberland Falls, KY and moved on to Bowling Green – more of a stop over than a stay.  We did do  a little shopping there and saw the older section of town.  We love those city centers where there is almost always a park and older architecture.  There is a college in the community and it is huge – the architecture of the older homes was fascinating.  So much beauty in  houses that have been standing since the 1850’s.  

Our most memorable event in Bowling Green will be our overnight accommodations – the Wal Mart parking lot!  We have stayed in W-M lots many times but this time was the worst.   It was warm enough that we needed to keep the windows open – wellll, at 12:45 a.m. I heard a girl scream … I jumped up and looked out the window – just a few college kids walking across the parking lot, laughing and yukking it up.  Then at 2:30 in the morning the PARKING LOT SWEEPER came and did it’s job!!!  He was a very thorough sweeper.  Later a diesel came, idled loudly, then left.   About 5:00 in the morning two guys in trucks decided stopping and idling near us was the perfect place to have a LOUD,  friendly conversation with one another.

Nashville  was only 50 miles away so it was a quick trip on Tuesday – we got a nice spot in the RV park here at Two Rivers and spent some time shopping for food and driving around the downtown area a little.   Wednesday we toured an 1850s mansion that has been turned into a museum, but the grounds were the reason for our visit – over 55,000 tulip bulbs in bloom!!  

  Beautiful day – actually got hot - beautiful spot to visit – we ate in their onsite restaurant and I had the tastiest salad I’ve ever eaten – a fried green tomato salad with a citrus vinegrette – yummo!  We were sorry they had remodeled a large section of the mansion to accommodate the art – we are rather pedestrian and don’t really appreciate modern art and would have loved seeing the mansion set up as the original owners had created it.  Oh well.

We took a tour of downtown Nashville on a hop on, hop off trolley – it was ok.  We only hopped off at the Farmer’s Market which was kind of quiet since it was Thursday.  We did get to see the building where Taylor Swift has a giant condo apartment – whoopee!  

taylor's digs - top floor, on right

White Castle burger places are everywhere here in the south so we decided to give them a try after a long day of touristy exploration.  We were not impressed.  They must have started the slider craze – you got four sliders with fries and a small coke for $5.45 – good deal, but the burger came with only a pickle and some chopped, grilled onion on it.  You added mayo, mustard etc.  No lettuce, no tomato.  The meat was the bologna equivalent of beef, small square, pressed-meat-looking product.  We gave half of it away to a hungry looking young man at the Laundromat we visited after “dinner”.  On this trip we have now crossed off White Castle, Sonic, What-a-Burger and Carver’s famous “butter burger” off the burger list.  We miss In-n-Out and no one, NO ONE, has come close to our own Diamond Back burgers and sweet potato fries!!

Last night big rain storm – thought it was going to thunder and lightening like crazy but no such luck,  just buckets of rain and a 30 degree drop in temps!!  Brrrr

Prayers for Boston – so weird to be in a store and see the news interruption and today to know they already have 2 suspects, although one is dead.  So sad to see the second man is only 19 – he came and benefited from all that America has to offer, and turns on Her. I will be interested to hear their story.

Oh the world needs Jesus.